Welcome to Darek Mihocka's Emulators web site. Since 1986 we have pioneered techniques for emulating Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, and Apple Macintosh software on PCs, as well as making contributions to other emulators such as Bochs.

The wait is over! XFORMER 10 is here!

We teased you with the preview version at the Vintage Computer Festival (VCF 2018) in Seattle, teased you with demo videos, and now the biggest rewrite of the Xformer emulator in 30 years launched on 10-10-2018.

Windows 10 arrives for ARM64:ARM chips are not for toy devices anymore! Windows 10 is now shipping on ARM64 based tablets and laptops which feature long battery life, x86 compatibility, and fast 64-bit performance.(More)

Haswell's great leap forward:The Intel Haswell processor has arrived! Darek looks at what makes this the most significant improvement to x86 in many years.(More)

The year of Smaller, Thinner, Faster: A look back a 2011.From AVX to Ultrabooks to Bochs 2.5, Darek looks back at 2011's interesting events and gadgets.(More)

Years before Apple made the switch to Intel, our SoftMac emulator was running Mac OS on Dell, Sony, and Gateway PCs in the 1990's.

On August 13th 2007, we started a public beta of the 9th generation of Gemulator and SoftMac, bringing Windows Vista compatibility and 64-bit Core 2 support to our flagship products. The final Gemulator 9.0 release was made on December 1 2008.

The authors of Bochs, Gemulator, and SoftMac presented the case for emulation on June 21 2008 at the AMAS-BT workshop, part of the ISCA 2008 computer architecture conference in Beijing, China. View the Virtualization Without Direct Executionpaper and slides.

Follow-up papers were presented at workshops at the 2010 CGO conference in Toronto, Canada, explaining improved Overflow Detection (paper and slides), and at the 2011 ISCA conference in San Jose on Fast Microcode Simulation (paper).

Got an older PC? No problem! Our SOFTMAC 2000 and FUSION PC 3.0 emulators are best suited for use with 486 and Pentium based MS-DOS and Windows 95 systems. Download them and bring new life to your old PC. These emulators use under 1 megabyte of disk space and can be booted from floppy disk, CD-ROM, or the network without requiring prior installation to the hard disk.

Our site also features the free Xformer Atari 400/800 emulator, and Gemulator, the original Atari ST emulator.

NO EXECUTE!The fundamental design of the microprocessors that power Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux is flawed. 20 years of security promises have fallen flat, leading to consumer frustration and a malware epidemic. How can emulation fix this mess?

Frequently Asked QuestionsNeed help getting started with our products? Want a better understanding of emulation? Your questions are answered here.Mac disks on the PCDo you need to read a Macintosh or Atari ST disk on your PC to copy over a few files? All you need is our free Gemulator Explorer utility!

SoftMac InfoFind out more about SoftMac - the Apple Macintosh emulator for Windows. Check the hardware requirements for your PC, download SoftMac, and learn how to install it and run it.

Pictured above: two virtual Atari 800 windows running on Microsoft Windows using the Xformer 2000 Atari 8-bit emulator. Each virtual Atari 800 is running a completely different program - one is running Atari BASIC, the other is running the well known game STAR RAIDERS.